Worcester man held in child porn case

A Worcester man allegedly told a Colonie, N.Y., 10-year-old that he would be killed unless the boy sent him sexually explicit videos of himself, according to federal court records.

The boy complied and sent more than 20 videos to 21-year-old Brian S. Belanger's Quinsigamond Community College gmail account in Worcester. The videos are described in graphic detail in a federal affidavit filed in support of the child pornography charge against Mr. Belanger, who was in U.S. District Court in Albany on Friday.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Randolph F. Treece set a detention hearing for Monday, and ordered Mr. Belanger remanded into custody.

According to the affidavit, late last month the boy's father told police he found numerous sent emails on his son's iPad containing sexually explicit videos of the boy. The emails were all addressed to an account authorities traced to Quinsigamond Community College. The college complied with a subpoena and told investigators the email belonged to Mr. Belanger.

The boy told investigators he met Mr. Belanger while playing video games online through a PlayStation 3. In October, Mr. Belanger told the boy there was a person trying to kill him and that the boy could help him if he provided him with videos of himself that he could give to the person.

The affidavit stated that Mr. Belanger instructed the boy to do "sexual things," in the video, including touching his naked penis and masturbating.

The boy complied, and between October and last month, sent more than 20 videos of himself to Mr. Belanger, according to the affidavit. Mr. Belanger continued to tell the boy he was getting texts from the person who wanted to kill him, and ngaged in FaceTime communications on the boy's iPad.

The boy told investigators what Mr. Belanger looked like, and said he had identified himself early on as Brian. He also told the boy he was 21 and from Massachusetts, the affidavit stated.

Authorities used a subpoena to match the PlayStation account the boy gave authorities with Mr. Belanger, and subpoenaed information about his email address from Google and Charter Communications. They all came back to Mr. Belanger's Worcester address, according to the affidavit. Worcester police gave authorities a copy of Mr. Belanger's driver's license, which matched a description given by the boy. The address on the license matched all the addresses authorities obtained for Mr. Belanger, according to the affidavit.